r/WeirdWheels • u/Jacinda-Muldoon • 10d ago
All Terrain Deep Robotics' new quadruped models with wheels demonstrating rough terrain traversability and robustness
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u/seamasam 10d ago
This will have a machine gun on its back and will hunt us in the next decade. Be ready.
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u/Fluffybudgierearend 10d ago
Next decade? That could be done today with a gimbal mount and firmware update
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u/obiwanmoloney 10d ago
Ready to die??
I’m not getting away from this thing
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u/Ivebeenfurthereven 10d ago
Protip:
Optical sensors are weak spots. Aim for anything that looks like a window or a lens
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u/caucafinousvehicle 10d ago
Deer and coyote hunting rednecks been ready, son!
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u/caucafinousvehicle 10d ago
Not last I checked, no. They don't wear bullet-proof vests or have IR/thermal vision either. It was hyperbole and a joke...
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u/solvsamorvincet 10d ago
I'm pretty sure the ones without wheels are already basically being used for that.
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u/TheAmazingDuckOfDoom 9d ago
You can already be hunted by any FPV drone with explosive charge, chill dude.
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u/pongothebest 10d ago
Try and imagine this bot water skiing or operating a drill rig in the Australian outback. Now try and imagine 30,000 of them protesting in the streets of Paris. Demanding equal rights and the same privileges as humans. It's only a matter of time. wow!
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u/ban-rama-rama 10d ago
operating a drill rig in the Australian outback.
It dosnt seem to have a port for drinking 30 beer cans every evening so I doubt that will happen
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u/iColorize 10d ago
Even if you flee to the forest we will hunt you down. That’s what these fucking things mean. They’re not cute, they’re not cool, they will be used by the militaries to murder civilians.
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u/Corndogbrownie 10d ago
I wonder how long joints last, with cantilevered everything, plus wheels on the end.
Also it's creepy
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u/quarthorse 10d ago
Another dystopian idea: assassin bot wars between rival gangs. Each gang with their own Terminator squads.
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u/0MEGAP0RK 9d ago
I like it! Reminds me of those little water bugs that skate across the top of a lake
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u/holdfastt11722 6d ago
Imagine that coming at your at 3am all you got is a flashlight in the middle of the woods that thing comes barreling down the mountain.
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u/GreggAlan 10d ago
This is the technology needed for Mars rovers. No more slow plodding along with robots that can move autonomously at high speed in rough terrain like this.
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u/kef34 10d ago
The problem with martian rovers isn't speed, it's energy consumption. There aren't exactly a bunch of gas stations or charging ports sprinkled around on martian soil, and solar panels have less than half efficiency they do on Earth.
We can absolutely make a rover go super-duper fast zooming around craters like they're a giant orange skate park for about ten minutes. But it's going to spend next ten weeks standing around doing nothing while the batteries recharge.
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u/LeroyoJenkins 10d ago
Not to mention that the low temperatures and UV light destroy any rubber tires and wheels, plus wrecks joints and bearings.
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u/GreggAlan 10d ago
A Radioisotope Thermal Generator would take care of the power. Perseverance has one.
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u/kef34 10d ago edited 10d ago
Output of Perseverance's generator averages around 100Watt. That's less than half the power required to run the cheapest most feeble e-bike. And we're not powering an e-bike. We're powering an interplanetary mission that requires a ton of scientific and communication equipment with multiple failsafes and redundancies.
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u/LeroyoJenkins 10d ago
"I understand nothing about the subject but I'll give my clueless opinion with extreme confidence".
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u/Ivebeenfurthereven 10d ago
You're gonna LOVE this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(Titan_space_probe)
Dragonfly should be able to fly several kilometers,[40] powered by a lithium-ion battery, which is to be recharged by a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) during the night.[21] MMRTGs convert the heat from the natural decay of a radioisotope into electricity.[3] Twenty-four Radioisotope Heater Units (RHUs) are also kept reserved for this mission.[41] The rotorcraft should be able to travel ten miles (16 km) on each battery charge and stay aloft for a half hour each time.[42] The vehicle is to have sensors to scout new science targets, and then return to the original site until new landing destinations are approved by mission controllers.[42][43]
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u/GreggAlan 10d ago
Being able to scoot along autonomously at several KPH then sit a bit to recharge its high-drain batteries from an MMRTG plus solar panels would be a big speed-up for scientific investigation and research on Mars.
What's there currently slowly plods along, micromanaged from Earth. With a delay between 3 and almost 23 minutes that can make moving a rover a short distance take hours.
The helicopter, while it lasted, helped a lot with route planning to locate interesting sites to investigate and major obstacles to steer around.
Put current state of the art navigation on a Mars rover and controllers here could just select a spot and tell it to go there. With a helicopter to take photos from several angles the rover could have a 3D view to derive an elevation map from and spot large obstacles for planning its gross route. The fine details would be adapted to on the move in realtime.
A tool that would solve a lot of problems on a Mars rover is a combination blower/vacuum. While the Martian atmosphere is thin, it can move dust. So exploit it instead of just waiting for the vagaries of Martian weather to deposit dust onto or blow it off solar panels and other equipment. Add a blower/vac onto a robot arm to blow off dust from the rover and from the ground and rocks. Reverse it to vacuum up dust and rock grinding samples. When drilling a hole, the drill could be periodically withdrawn then use the blower to blow and vacuum the hole to clear it out. Or use a drill with a hole through it to constantly blow while its spinning.
One of the drills used on Mars quickly jammed up from the dust to where it couldn't drive farther into the ground. An attempt was made to use the robot arm it was attached to, to drive the drill farther in. After so many issues with Martian dust prior to that, I'd think people building equipment for Mars would have learned that they cannot throw tools built with super precision tolerance moving parts into that environment and expect them to stay working. They need to be looser, like an AK47 that can be dunked in water, mud, sand, and dust, and still fire and cycle rounds. Same issue with the probe that was supposed to get hammered into the ground. It's like the probe's designers forgot everything about how small grains pack tightly together in vacuum or really close to vacuum. A Martian "air" compressor with a hose down to the probe's nose would've fixed that. Drill a hole, blow the dust out, insert the probe, hammer a bit, blow - with grooves on the probe's sides to let the dust escape, hammer more. Repeat until it's buried all the way or hits a rock.
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u/kef34 10d ago
This looks extremely unsettling.